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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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